Overview
- Brings together a very wide range of chapters from academics from many countries and religious traditions
- Very timely in light of the religious divisiveness that can be present in the contemporary world and in light of the World Parliament of Religions to be held in Melbourne, Australia in 2009
- The first time that such a group of scholars has addressed itself to this issue in a co-ordinated way
- Represents the current scholarship of inter-religious education from an international perspective and provides direction for its future
Part of the book series: International Handbooks of Religion and Education (IHRE, volume 4)
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This Handbook is based on the conviction of its editors and contributing authors that understanding and acceptance of, as well as collaboration between religions has essential educational value. The development of this Handbook rests on the f- ther assumption that interreligious education has an important role in elucidating the global demand for human rights, justice, and peace. Interreligious education reveals that the creeds and holy books of the world’s religions teach about sp- itual systems that reject violence and the individualistic pursuit of economic and political gain, and call their followers to compassion for every human being. It also seeks to lead students to an awareness that the followers of religions across the world need to be, and to grow in, dialogical relationships of respect and understa- ing. An essential aim of interreligious education is the promotion of understanding and engagement between people of different religions and, therefore, it has great potential to contribute to the common good of the global community. Interreligious education has grown from the interfaith movement, whose beg- ning is usually identi?ed with the World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893. This was the ?rst time in history that leaders of the eastern and we- ern religions had come together for dialogue, and to consider working together for global unity.
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Table of contents (67 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Philosophical and Theoretical Aspects of Interreligious Education
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The Pedagogical Aspects of Interreligious Education
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Inter-religious Education
Editors: Kath Engebretson, Marian Souza, Gloria Durka, Liam Gearon
Series Title: International Handbooks of Religion and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9260-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9273-2Published: 10 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7675-2Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9260-2Published: 17 August 2010
Series ISSN: 1874-0049
Series E-ISSN: 1874-0057
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVII, 1175
Topics: Sociology of Education, Educational Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Early Childhood Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Philosophy of Religion